Even the main made up our minds enemy of Festschriften may baulk at refusing one to Walter Burkert, for there are few students whose paintings has been extra universally famous and applauded. at the celebration of his sixty fifth birthday in 1996 a bunch of former students (Graf, Riedweg and Szlezák) and fellow students of Greek faith amassed on the Römerstiftung René Clavel in Augst close to Basel to have fun his success with a symposium.

Taylor, D. (1986) Sophocles: the Theban Plays, London: Methuen. Tomquist, E. (1991) Transposing Drama, London: Methuen. Page Intentionally Left Blank ‘Genuine’ and ‘Fictitious’ Translations of Science Fiction & Fantasy in Hungary ANIKÔ SOHÂR CETRA Leuven Research Centre for Translation, Communication and Cultures, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium This article examines the way in which science fiction and fantasy novels are developed and established in Hungary through transla­ tion proper as well as through a system of fictitious ’ translations, a special case of the pseudo-translation phenomenon in contempo­ rary Hungarian society.

Substitution of the original cover and layout is commonplace. In my research to date I have found only twelve translated science fiction books with the original cover. Edward James (1994:2) has the following to say on SF and fantasy book covers: “a fantasy novel will display dragons, elves, wizards, and heroes (or heroines) with swords, mighty thews, and not very many clothes; an SF book can draw on a futuristic machinery or architecture, robots, weird alien landscapes and alien creatures ... But most of the covers represent the core of what each genre is ostensibly about, and may suggest to you some possible divergences between gen­ 6 “May be by HEAVEN’S grace this land may be delivered from sore Travail” (Peter Morwood: The Horse Lord, p.

One must become “a sort of stranger within [one’s] own language” (ibid:26, italics in original) to recognize what that language can and cannot do. For Kaplan, it is her year away at Swiss boarding-school that allows her to hear her mother tongue in the same way Hoffman does upon arrival in suburban Vancou­ ver. Just as Hoffman’s initial reaction to English is not particularly positive, “I can’t imagine wanting to talk their harsh-sounding language” (1989:105), Kaplan’s newly-trained French ears do not like what they rediscover upon returning to the Mid-west where “people’s voices sounded stretched and whiny - because of the diphthongs, I suppose.